America

• The Fed Is Meeting in April to Talk About June (BBG)
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• President Xi Jinping’s Most Dangerous Venture Yet: Remaking China’s Military (WSJ)
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• Malaysia’s Reputation Takes Another Hit as State Fund Defaults  (BBG)

There’s a lot wrong with Jim VandeHei’s weird op-ed about a possible agenda for an independent presidential candidate, but this seemed especially deplorable:

In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation. “The vast majority of leading conservative writers … have a secular outlook on life. … They are unaware of the disaster that godlessness in the West has led to.”

These secular conservatives may think that “America can survive the death of God and religion,” writes Prager, but they are wrong. And, indeed, the last half-century seems to bear him out.

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Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,